Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Fraudster sells government land, dupes MUDA

The
Mysore City Corporation almost lost a huge site because of the
negligence of the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) before
the fraud was discovered in the nick of time.The
accused Krishna had forged documents of 1.13 acres in Survey No 505
in Kesare village and sold it to one Parveez who started constructing
a building when it was stopped by MCC officials. The accused had even
got an NoC to sell the land from MUDA, which did not bother to find
out the real owner.

Krishna
is said to be a relative of the man to whom the land originally
belonged before it was acquired by the erstwhile City Improvement
Trust Board (CITB) for civic purposes about 58 years ago. Finding
the land vacant for many decades, the accused created fake documents
and tried to sell it.

Sources
in the MCC said that after obtaining information through RTI about
the land, Krishna, along with his relative Chennaiah, obtained an NoC
from MUDA and got the Khata made for the land from the taluk office
by producing fake documents. The
property was registered in Krishna’s name in 2009.

Krishna
then sold the illegal property to Parveez in 2011-12. After realising
that he had been cheated, Parveez filed a suit in court, getting a
permanent injunction restraining the defendant from interfering with
his peaceful possession of the property.

Revenue
Assistant Commissioner R Lokanath said that when he inspected the
place, he found that Parveez had occupied the land and even fenced
the property that belonged to the Corporation. Upon questioning, he
produced the clearances obtained from MUDA, Taluk office and even the
court. After
being alerted, MCC officials registered a land grab-cum-cheating
complaint against Krishna and Parveez. They have even approached
court and the case is pending.